Looking for Stories That Start Sweet, Turn Angsty, and End Happily, Like Spring Returns to the Ailing Branch 求先甜后虐最后he的文，类似《病树枝头又逢春》
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The Socially Mortifying Darling Gets Her Mind Read by a Deranged Villain Every Day 社死中娇娇每天都被疯批反派读心
Yu Zhen transmigrated into a book. From the start, the book's great villain stabbed her through the heart and killed her. With the last of her strength, she gave the villain the international hand gesture and cursed in a faint voice, “Bitch!” She died, but not entirely. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an insignificant cannon-fodder character who had hopelessly pursued the villain and was about to have her neck snapped by him. Yu Zhen had no choice but to grit her teeth and win the
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The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles
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Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了，整个宗门数你嘴严
[Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and
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After I Saved the Sick, Obsessive Demon Lord, He Became Utterly Devoted to Me 拯救了病娇妖尊后，他嗜我如命
The animated series is now streaming [Sweetness overload warning! Devoted couple + sweet romance + little temptress + possessive + crazy + lovesick] A healing little fairy with incredible fighting prowess x a cold, celibate, lovesick rabbit spirit Wanwan transmigrates into a book to undergo a trial. The Heavenly Dao tells her to reform a pitiful villain on the verge of turning evil, teach him to be good, and inspire him to cultivate virtue. Wanwan says, “No problem. I just have to shower the vil
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You’re Possessive, I’m Unhinged: I’m Taking the Cultivation World by Storm 你病娇，我疯癫，修真界里拽炸天
[Mutual Devotion, Yandere, Mind Reading, Anti-Romance, Transmigrate into a Book] [Yandere, Gloomy Male Lead × Goofy Female Lead] [Also known as: What Happened After the Best Actor and Best Actress Tried to Act Their Way Through a Romance and Both Fell Flat] After transmigrating into a cultivation novel as a minor character destined to die, Chi Yu is told by the System to win over the male lead, Shen Yanzhou. If she succeeds, she'll get ten billion. Chi Yu: Money doesn't matter. The main thing is
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Everyone Wants to Win Me Over, but I Follow the Path of Ruthlessness 所有人都想攻略我，但我修无情道
The animated series Jade Walls Without Dust is out now. [Everyone's favorite heroine × no CP × everyone has a one-sided crush × a battlefield of competing men] The heroine is a beacon of righteousness, a proper, upright disciple of a traditional sect from a prestigious family! Shen Wensheng, the second disciple of the Venerable Qingxiao of Tianquan Sect, is exceptionally gifted and blessed. The Grand Ancestor Taixuan has identified her as the ideal candidate to cultivate the Heartless Dao. But t
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Quick Transmigration: The White Moonlight Tears Up the Cannon Fodder Plot Again 快穿：白月光又撕了炮灰剧本
At first, none of them liked her. Later, she became the unreachable first love in their hearts! A scum-trashing Mary Sue romance, with regretful exes chasing their wives! After cultivating for a thousand years, the parasitic vine spirit Si Si finally succeeds in ascending. But during the Ascension Ceremony, her superior gets her in trouble. The Heavenly Dao orders her to help cannon-fodder supporting heroines in three thousand worlds fulfill their wishes. Only after earning enough merit can she
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All You Do Is Torture Me, No Wonder Your Wife Ran Away 虐虐虐虐虐，就会虐，老婆跑了吧
[Chasing her wife to the crematorium + face-slapping + one-on-one romance + both are each other’s first] No one in the Lu family knew that Song Yanxi was hopelessly in love with Lu Yan. Even though she married into the Lu family only to bring good fortune to Grandma Lu, Song Yanxi was more than happy to do it. She rarely drank, but when she happily spotted Lu Yan’s familiar, handsome face at a bar, she couldn’t help clinging to him. There was nothing to regret, after all. She was about to become
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She Stopped Comforting Him 她不哄他了
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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A Gentle Breeze of Sandalwood Finds Its Way to Your Heart 微风轻檀入尔心
Rebirth, growth, and redemption… This story spans a long period and focuses on the heroine’s growth! I’m a fan of Tan Jianci, and I had a long, vivid story dream while I was in the middle of it, which gave me the framework for this novel! Fellow Charcoal Sisters, if you happen to come across this, please show it some support. And if there’s anything you don’t like, please go easy on me, haha! In her previous life, Gu Weiwei endured a miserable childhood, deception, and betrayal. Reborn, all she
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Wutong Lane 梧桐巷
[Bright and kind-hearted Ning Wan x gentle genius Song Qingyan] [Love at first sight + Secret love comes true + Youthful heartache + BE] When the innocent, sunny Ning Wan fell in love with Song Qingyan at first sight, he was the golden boy in everyone's eyes. She wrote her secret feelings in her diary, planning to keep them to herself. By a twist of fate, Song Qingyan became her temporary guardian. During the days when she was ostracized and bullied, he became the light in her life. She held on
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She Drew the Gods Down from Heaven 她引神明坠落
Shen Daiyi comes from a prominent medical family in Jingbei. That year, her usually low-key mother suddenly holds a birthday banquet, drawing greetings from all the great families and landing Shen Daiyi a blind date. It’s snowing softly on the day of the date. The person she once had a crush on as a girl is seated beside her blind date. Like a snow-capped peak, like a god from the heavens, the man is just as he was back then: refined, extraordinary, and beyond reach, the sort no one would dare l
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Green Hills Like Jade 青山似玉
(The print edition is now available) [Love after marriage, age gap, slow-burn everyday sweetness] *A gentle beauty from a family of scholars × a refined, fatherly man *A comic artist with a billion in assets × an influential Beijing aristocrat and chamber of commerce chairman Chu Shuang knew from childhood that she was promised to the Sheng family of the imperial capital, but she had never met her fiancé. Later, by a twist of fate, she moved into the Sheng residence and met her friend’s older br
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My Wife Is Mine. What's Wrong with Hiding Her Away? 老婆是我的，我藏起来怎么了？
Marriage Before Love + Long-Standing Scheme + Stealing Someone's Love + Winning Her Back + Both Leads Are Chaste (Obedient, gentle, looks-obsessed painter worth over a hundred million × Self-controlled, dark, and unhinged head of a powerful family) When her fiancé cheated on her with a stand-in, Ming Can wasted no time calling off the engagement. She thought she wasn't sad. Until Sheng Ting, so breathtakingly handsome he seemed unreal, stood before her holding an umbrella. “Don't cry.” “Here, ta
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Last Year's Springtime Heartache Returns 去年春恨却来时
[Clearheaded, self-possessed noblewoman × scheming, cold-blooded emperor] [Love and hate in equal measure + clear-eyed heroine + the leads use each other + ensemble court intrigue + everyone gets a bad ending + fictional setting] [Content warnings: ① Neither lead is sexually inexperienced; ② Not a wish-fulfillment novel. The heroine grows over time. ③ Both leads are deeply complicated and far from kind. Don't read if that's not for you!] Yan Qinghe was born a concubine-born daughter of a noble f
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Your Majesty, I Request to Be Stripped of My Title as Empress 陛下，臣妾自请废后
What kind of person was Nan Shanyi? The apple of the Nan family's eye, with the 700,000-strong Nanrong army behind her. She enjoyed a life of luxury, finer than that of the princesses in the palace. The Marquis of Wu'an had raised her well. She was a proper young lady, well-read and scholarly, gentle and composed, graceful and dignified. Like an orchid in a valley or a spring in the mountains, she was refined and proud. A noblewoman like her was born only once in a century. But Heaven was me
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The Emperor Finds His Consort Alluring; I Find His Majesty a Jerk 朕见贵妃多妩媚，妾见皇上甚是渣
[No transmigration or rebirth] [Pure palace intrigue] [The heroine never falls in love] Jinyue, the legitimate eldest daughter of a general's household, is chosen in a selection for the imperial harem. The Empress appoints her as a spy and marries her off to the Crown Prince as a secondary consort. The moment she enters the Eastern Palace, she understands that she and Zhongli Jin are bound only by mutual interest. There can never be the slightest affection between them. After sixteen years in th
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The Beautiful, Brilliant, and Tragic Obsessive Villain Is a Hopeless Romantic, and She Kissed Him to Tears 美强惨偏执反派是恋爱脑，被亲哭
Redemption story! Healing a sick, obsessive lunatic + sweet romance + possessive love + a scheming, black-hearted villain who's all in on love + transmigrated female supporting character + everyone's favorite + devoted couple with no past lovers + happy ending + school life. The original female lead isn't vilified. The System has little presence. A youthful, passionate, sweet little romance. [The entire main cast awakens! The male lead is a pure-hearted boy, utterly devoted to his wife and crazy
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Crazy, All Crazy, A Little Madness Is Good 癫，都癫，癫点好啊
[Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay.
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A Dangerous Contract: Young Master Jin's Bride of Revenge 契约危情：靳少的复仇新娘
To save her family's business, Ning Chuyu is forced to marry the coldhearted CEO Jin Beichen, becoming a pawn in his revenge plan. After the wedding, she discovers that her husband is still hung up on a missing "first love," and that she is merely a casualty of their contract marriage. Just as she begins to fall for him, she catches him being intimate with another woman. Then she is framed and divorced, and her family is destroyed. A year later, reborn, she returns in triumph with a business emp
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Love Tribulation: My 28-Year-Old Boss Lady 情劫：我的28岁老板娘
Chen Tiezhu came to the city and got a job as a security guard at a big company. Who could have guessed he’d run into the boss’s wife while working the night shift... “Tiezhu, you’re strong. Come to my place and help me move some things.” “Tiezhu, don’t you know medicine? Take a look at me.”
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Her True Colors Come Out After Marriage, and His Wife Endures in Silence 婚后暴露本性，妻子忍辱负重
Who says only “good people” deserve to be reborn? Bai Mu was reborn too, even though his wife and daughter thought he was a bastard. Now that he's reborn, does he have to turn over a new leaf? Who says so! This time, he'll just love her in a different way. “Sweetheart, do you love me?” “I have money.” “And I have love, too.” “I can give you everything you want.” Qiu Luoyu: “I want to be free…” “That, I can't give you.” “Then could you sleep next door tonight?” Qiu Luoyu bit her lip and gazed at
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From the Start, the Ice-Cold CEO Is Pregnant with My Child 开局冰山美女总裁怀了我的孩子
(Multiple female leads, plenty of romance. But no formulaic tropes, no System, and no brainless characters. Everything reflects real life. Many of the issues raised are worth pondering. This story is purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people is coincidental, so please don't assume it's about you.) He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, yet fate cruelly reduced him to one of the most insignificant people at the bottom of society. He was insecure, but he worked hard. An accident le
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1989: The Heiress of Harbor City Is Vicious and Spoiled 1989：港城千金她又恶又娇
[Feel-Good 1990s Romance + Devoted Couple + Sweet Romance + Pampered by the Whole Family + Building Wealth] [Unhinged, Alluring, and Cunning Beauty × Scheming, Ruthless Young Master of Hong Kong] Su Miaomiao died, then came back to life. When she opened her eyes again, she had traveled to Beishan City in 1989. From the start, her fake best friend drugged her and bundled her off to Wansinian's bed. Who was Wansinian? Hong Kong's top tycoon's heir, infamous for being a ruthless madman. Any woman w
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You're Stealing the Female Lead Too? How About Two Slaps? 女主你也抢，两巴掌响不响？
[Top young heir of the capital's elite circle VS pampered little rose] [Original title: He Kisses the Little Rose] After being reborn and seeing again the man she had once loved with all her heart, Ning Qiutang's parched heart held nothing but fear. She avoided him at every turn, shutting her heart away. She took off the glamorous makeup she had once dared to wear just because he said he disliked good girls, put on the floral dress she had once tossed into a corner, and became the good girl he h
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After the Divorce, My Wealthy Ex-Husband Completely Lost Control 离婚后豪门前夫彻底失了控
(The animated series adaptation, "Only After We Parted Did I Realize How Deeply I Loved You," Seasons 2 and 3 are now available. The adaptation and production are excellent.) [Both Leads Are Inexperienced] [Mutual Devotion] [Marriage Before Love] [He Must Win Her Back] Shi Yang had loved Fu Jingchuan since she was young. Back then, he was the darling of the heavens, while she was an unremarkable transfer student. It was as if a chasm lay between them. Years later, they met again at a class reuni
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The Legitimate Daughter Returns in Force and Slaughters Her Way Through 嫡女她强势归来杀疯了
Jiang Xinyan died in the third year of Beitang Jingyu’s reign as emperor. In the end, not even her bones remained. So much for the saying: once the rabbit is dead, the hound is cooked. Reborn, she sees her half-sister trying to climb the social ladder. Fine, let’s see if she survives the fall. Beitang Jingyu wants to be emperor? Not a chance. The Princess of Tianlin, you say? For the blood feud spanning both her lives, she’ll make the kingdom of Tianlin pay with its destruction. If Tianzhao and
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Abducted to a Remote Mountain Village, I Was Tricked into Having a Baby by a Scheming Soldier 被拐深山，腹黑兵王骗我生娃
Yangmei and I were kidnapped and taken deep into the mountains. We escaped into the wilderness, got lost, and ran into Bai Tianye, a decorated soldier who was searching for medicinal herbs in a cave. He took meticulous care of us. When I got sick and nearly died, he saved me, and then fell in love with me. I ran away from my wedding, and he searched for me frantically. To repay him for saving my life, I slept with him. He had someone bring my parents over, and they were very pleased with him. Af
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The Doormat Turned into a Fierce Wife by Her In-Laws 受气包被婆家训成悍妇
Lin Xing was known for being a doormat. Her father had been abducted by Lin Kaifu. Her parents left home when she was two, and Lin Xing was bullied, beaten, and scolded by the family. There was always work to do, never enough food, and sometimes they even punished her by refusing to feed her. Lin Xing collapsed from hunger and rolled down a mountain, where Li Yan found her while hunting. He took a liking to her and began looking out for her. When someone pushed Lin Xing down the mountain, Li Ya
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The Obsessive CEO Dragged Me Back and Punished Me Mercilessly 被病娇总裁绑回去狠狠惩罚
Stubborn Beauty x Obsessive CEO [The Husband's Groveling Era + Canary Romance + Obsessive, Unhinged Male Lead + Substitute + White Moonlight + Dead Lover Trope] On a stormy night, Wen Yang fled frantically in a raincoat, only to run straight into the headlights of Shen Yan's car. The man stood backlit, holding a black umbrella. He sneered, "Can't the iron gate at home keep you in? I should've locked you to the bed with a gold chain." She collapsed in the muddy water, trembling, her almond-sh
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After She Went Blind, a Powerful Tycoon Took Her In and Spoiled Her Rotten! 失明后，她被大佬捡回家！宠上天
The short drama adaptation, A Deep Confession in Your Eyes, is now available. Go watch it on Hongguo, everyone! [First Married, Then in Love + Devoted Couple + Age Gap + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Mu Qianqian accidentally goes blind while saving an old lady, then marries the old lady's grandson on a whim just three days later! Before her sight returns, Mu Qianqian worries every day that she's married an ugly guy with no car or house. Once she can see again, the man lifts her chin, his thin
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After a Flash Marriage, the Richest Man Spoils Me Rotten 闪婚后，首富老公宠我入骨
[Female lead: marriage first, love later / Male lead: has been deeply in love with her for a long time] Shen Huaishuang stood outside the marriage registration office. Her grandmother had found her a match: the grandson of their neighbor, Grandma Su. She’d heard he was dependable and levelheaded, strong and upright. Only after meeting him did she learn that Grandma Su’s grandson was the man she’d spent the night with. The two of them smoothly registered their marriage. Her stepmother and half-si
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Divine Choices: Awaken the Ten Great Ferocious Beast Martial Souls from the Start 神级选择，开局觉醒十大凶兽武魂
In a world of martial arts where monstrous beasts run rampant, only by becoming a martial artist can you take control of your own destiny! Xu Qiu transmigrates to this world and begins with a Martial Soul awakening ceremony, only to discover that he has no Martial Soul. Once an academic prodigy, he is now mocked by everyone. His girlfriend even breaks up with him in public! But he stays calm. His Martial Soul may not have awakened, but he has awakened the Life Choices System. As long as he makes
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No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话
An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the
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After Switching Lives with a Tycoon, She Turned the Ultra-Luxury Socialite World Upside Down 和大佬互换后她炸翻了顶奢豪门
[Also known as: The Overbearing CEO and the Celebrity Who Swapped Bodies and Reformed the Entertainment Industry] Third-rate actress Zhong Ruanxing has faced endless controversy over her sexy figure ever since her debut, with scandalous rumors constantly swirling around her. She is suppressed by industry bigwigs and dragged down by rivals, while smear campaigns come one after another. For years, she has been unable to shake her image as a sexy star, and her career has been severely hampered. Son
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After Faking Her Death in Disguise as a Man, She Starts Playing the Frail, Scheming Green Tea 女扮男装死后，她开始演柔弱绿茶
The print edition of [Playing Coy] is available on all platforms. [The heroine is everyone’s beloved, with maximum “moonlight in the heart” appeal + doted on by all + universally adored + strong female lead] Qin Buwen disguised herself as a man and played the part of a treacherous official for sixteen years. At the height of her infamy, everyone in Chang’an, even the dogs, would go out of their way to avoid her. Then she was betrayed and abandoned by everyone. She leapt from a tall building, onl
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What?! My Pregnant Mom Who Ran Away Just Came Back Through Time 惊！我那个带球跑亲妈穿回来了
The physical edition goes on sale at 7 p.m. on June 5. [Reborn + face-slapping + comedy + raising kids + slice of life] After Shu Shu died, she discovered she was the novel's departed first love, the male lead's white moonlight who had run away while pregnant. Her children were foils to the heroine's children. Her son grew up on the streets as a young punk. He competed with the heroine's top-student son for the girl he liked, became a laughingstock, and ultimately went astray and ended up in pri
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The Tiny Boss Is Everyone's Favorite, and She Coddles Her Scumbag Dad Like He's Her Placenta 小小老子当团宠，把渣爹当胎盘哄
The print edition of A Boat in a Single Thought is now available on all platforms. [Comedy + raising kids + everyone’s favorite + 1v1 romance + devoted couple + the adult heroine’s love interest is Lu Jinghuai] [A funny, sunny heroine who actually has eight hundred tricks up her sleeve x a saintly beauty who is really a sinister, venomous schemer] Ji Nian transmigrates into a novel where the heroine is adored by everyone, becoming the universally disliked biological daughter of the heroine’s pow
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Nightfall 入夜
The door opened, and a tall, slender man stepped out. Lin Mian stared at him, dumbstruck, forgetting even to snap out of it. “What are you looking at, hmm?”
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The Whole Family Is Insanely Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 全家偷听我心声杀疯了，我负责吃奶
The Red Fruit short drama adaptation of My Whole Family Hears My Thoughts: Fu Bao Chaochao is now open for reservations! Please show it lots of support and give it a follow! [Whole-family mind reading + cannon fodder + beloved by the whole family + powerful figure transmigrates into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger + feel-good story] Lu Zhaozhao transmigrated into a book. She became a cannon-fodder character who was drowned at birth, while the heroine stole her identity. The heroine turned
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